[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

[basil]

I use GoodSearch.com

When you first use it, they ask you to name a charity that you would like them to make a small donation to each time you use it.

The “charity” I named was Second Amendment Sister, Inc—(of course).

Over the years they have sent us checks that have added about $300 in SAS’s bank account.

I find them to be a very good search engine.

[babble-on]

Hotbot!

[Revolting cat!]

I remember when Infoseek was superceded by nymphoseek.com. Those were the days.

[Varmint Al]

Clusty

I have used Clusty and it still exists and is pretty good. Give it a try.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[GOP_Party_Animal]

AltaVista is the one that springs most readily to mind. It was created by researchers Paul Flaherty...

Paul Flaherty = FReeper HolgerDansk = my brother.

[freedomlover]

Dogpile.

Just for the name.

[ifinnegan]

WebCrawler was the best at the time.

AllTheWeb was also very good.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

What was the one.....Gopher,Groundhog or Prairie dog or something like that?

[PraiseTheLord]

I have been using *startpage* formerly called ixquick. It does not save anything about you, like the big ones do.

It does a real good search job, I have found, when comparing with what others get on the same search. For example, not a lot of other stuff that does not apply to what I asked for, and definitely what I did ask for.

[petro45acp]

Held on to Alta Vista until a few months ago. Saw a TED article about the “internet bubble” and made the switch to duckduckgo.com.

No auto complete
No cached personal info
No click back to links selected from results
Firefox version default bar that will try for HTTPS if available

Just say no to web 2.0

[Seizethecarp]

Thanks for posting this. I worked in financial planning at DEC during that time period and as just wondering the other day what happened to AltaVista.

DEC’s Alpha chip was the first to exploit 64-bit addressing which gave them a leg up until the technology was basically sold to Intel to be incorporated into their PC chips, IIRC.

[conserv8]

Web Ferrets?

[Hammerhead]

HotBot

AskJeeves is nothing more than malware these days.

Same with Ask.com

[PoloSec]

Another search engine and one that I use is Ixquick check it out.

https://ixquick.com/eng/

[jboot]

I used Lycos for a few years, then switched to WebCrawler, then MetaCrawler and finally Google in rapid succession. In the early days a search engine could rock one day and blow the next...everybody was tweaking algorithms, making it up as they went along. It could be fun and it could be frustrating.

I hate Google like a toothache, but it does work well. I know they spy on me. So does the regime, I'm sure. Nothing to be done for it.

The old ('90s) 'net was a blast. Surfing could be like exploring new worlds sometimes, and some of them were hostile. (I had a Norton Ghost image updated daily for those times that the Klingons won.) What we have today is pastuerized, homogenized, STILL not safe and generally not fun.

[sonofagun]

All right youngin's...don't forget Archie, Veronica and Gopher.

When WWW was text based.

[SuzyQueIN]

I use — and highly recommend — Bing.

Wouldn’t use Google if you paid me to.

[Dr. Sivana]

What the article does NOT mention is all of the people who registered free e-mail accounts in the early years. My wife picked mailcity.com, which now redirects to Lycos. Now she cannot get her mail without looking at a couple of advertising videos. My own, iname.com, was purchased by mail.com (not a search engine), and I finally decided to just buy my own domain and be done with it. Mrs. Sivana doesn’t want to make her friends learn a new e-mail address.